Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-09-18
TRADE NOTES.

Five hundred X. of L. carpenters are
IDLE In Chicago, ILL.,, owing to the late
strike. The National Executive Board
have voted them 5000.
The American Federation Of Trades
Unions Is growing rapidly, and if care
fully handled it will eventually WELD an
immense power for good.
1t is rumOred that the steel for 500, 900
rifles, the order for which was given by the
Turkish government to two German firms,
Is being made by q sheffield, England firm.
The Machinery Constructors Union Of
North America, which was the first organ
ization to secure national trades district
charter in the Knights of Labor, has now
a membership of 10000.
Rumsey Brothers, shoe manufacturers of
Lynn, Mass, who have been in trouble
with their employees for year, have
finally agreed to employ only union men
and accsde to the terms of the State Board
of Arbitration.
How nice and smooth trade generally is
marching on. Everybody seems employed,
everybody busy and everybody happy.
Keep down speculation and this very de-
sirable state of affairs will continue for an
indefinite period.
As some view it, the greatest anxiety
among certain people about the prospec-
tive resignation of T. V. Powderly, Esq,
as G. NJ. w. of the K. OF L., is not so much
the executive ability that will be lost TO
the order by his resigning as the fear they
have of not being the successful candidate
for Mr.. Powderiy's shoes as G. NJ. w.
The Trades Union Congress has passed a
resolution pledging the various unions OF
England to begin an agitation in favor Of
decreasing the hours of labor to eight hours
per day, and to make every Saturday full
holiday. 1t was contended by the dele
gates that the 100000 men now ont of
work would be able to get employment If
this rule were put into force.
F. ]. Wheeler, of the Carpenters and
Joiners' Union, No. 2ll, of Allegheny
City, has been elected delegate to the Ma
tional Building Trades Council, which
cOnvenes at Chicago on Tuesday, the goth
inst, to represent the Trades Building
League of Allegheny county.
The Iron Car Company, of New York,
HuOSC "OAhS dAC 1OItAbCN az AANhbAhSNNAp
Pa, are about to let an enormous contract
for materials to be used in the cOnstruc-
ton of :, 500 tube-irOn freight cars, to car
~ thirty thirty tons. There will be need
ed oyeo 2, 500, 900 feet Of oak and about the
same quantity of Georgia pine lumber for
the execution Of the contrGct.-Age Of Steel
The General Executive Board of the
Knights Of Labor have issued the long
desired charter to the ShOemakers' National
Trade Assembly, which was informally or
ganized last July in BrocktOn, Mass. 1t
will hereafter he known as National Trade
Assembly No. 2l6, the number attached to
the charter.
The great scarcity of good molders in st.
Louis is brought about by the refusal Of
the firms there to recognize tie right of
their men 10 organize. Good mOlders"
belong to labor organizations, and when
the employers come to realize this fact
they may he able to secure some OF them
to work in their foundries.
Peter Gallagher, John O'Shea and Thos.
Mitchell, of Pittsburg, have been sued for
conspiracy by John Calhoun, painter. 1t
seems that Calhoun was charged with not
being in good standing in the union, and
the workmen refused 10 permit him to
work until he made himself right. They
gave bail for hearing
The importations for the twelve month:
ending July lst Of the leading manuiac-
tured goods are represented by the follow
| ing figures IN million in round numbers.
Wooden, 50 millions Of dollars; silk, 81;
flax and hem, 35; iron and steel, 40; cot
ton, %. Total, 1894, 100000. The in
crease over the previous year was more
than 1900, 900 in value. In consider
ing these figures it should he remembered
thatimpoEtation values are characteristical-
" low, and therefore the total of the above
mentioned five articles represent probably
not less than $3.50, 900, 900.